Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...Sudan the remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
...city, Naha. The method: Lieut. General James E. Moore, U.S. High Commissioner, rewrote Naha's laws to permit the city assembly's conservative majority to oust the mayor on a vote of no confidence, then effectively barred his re-election by decreeing that no convicted felons could hold office (Senaga was jailed by the U.S. authorities in 1954 for harboring a Japanese Communist...
...Mothers and Babies' Home attached to the hospital so that she could have continuous medical care, frequent lab tests, and the ever-necessary transfusions. As she grew up, Helen helped with the younger children, worked in the office, developed a cheery personality that belied her tenuous hold on life. Every two months (in recent years) she has received four pints of blood, a half-pint on alternate days to cut down the severity of her chills-and-fever reaction to transfusions. She has responded surprisingly well to the transfusion routine. "It still hurts, but I'm a good...
High Fares. Aeroflot's fares are high: 11.3? a mile on flights inside Russia, v. the 8.6? charged by Western carriers for trips within Europe and only 5.3? for domestic U.S. flights. Passengers have trouble buying tickets in advance, since flights are often reported fully booked because clerks hold out large blocks to satisfy any last-minute demand by Soviet VIPs. A foreigner can usually wangle a seat at the last moment, even if a nontitled Soviet citizen must be bumped just before takeoff. In flight, meals are heavy and ordinary, include Georgian wines, vodka and cognac. The piston...